Berlin mit Berlin

"Memory is endlessly creative, and at one level it functions just as imagination does... endlessly rewriting the self." (Fernyho...

The documentary film director Errol Morris claims that he "can't know for sure" whether an interviewee is telling the truth...

"This is a memory of my sophomore year of 1989, the year when I almost got killed. I don’t feel lucky for my survival, but a stron...

The social experiment "based on an initially utopian, then scientific, notion of the future: Communism" [Transmediale.de, 20...

When Tacita Dean tried to film the Chalon-sur-Saône Kodak factory in France, which had stopped producing film, she was told she had co...

"Memories are always being negotiated, fought over and shaped by the memories of others." (Fernyhough, 2012) We sometimes ...

"Memory has always been a social activity... and our appetite for collective nostalgia is undiminished." (Bell, 2012) Memory...

Daniel Goldstein claims that "there's two heads inside one person" - cool and hot - or the present self and the future s...

Lothar de Maizière, the last GDR prime minister, attending the Korean-German Consultation Committee on Reunification, says the South K...

The Global Contemporary exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe showcases post-1989 art practices that have emerged as a result of political ch...

"They linger in and as memory; as we look at them we reflect, try to make something out. Images seen from a railway carriage or ca...

Franziska Vu's exhibition Detained [ Inhaftiert ] combines photographs with interviews of Stasi prisoners, to create an exhibition...

Three out of four participants of the Guardian poll  said that the British government should hand over the files containing the names o...

The Guardian is running an online poll on whether the British government should hand the East German secret police files over to German...

This clip shows an interactive project due to launch on 10 Jan 2012, made from a collection of 25 postcards sent from 11 East European...

"I think that we can only see the Holocaust in fragments, and these fragments are individual lives and individual deaths, and this ...

"However he abused his long-suffering people, the fear they must now be feeling is surely real." (Taylor, 2011) Kathleen Tay...

Søren Lose's exhibition Relicts, on GDR-era Berlin and collective memories, was closed.  Excerpt from the Brandts website. The ...

Gregory Crewdson's photographs are "projections of a story" he might have heard, "trying to search beneath the sur...

"The building was completely sealed," said Klapsch, "so an utter stillness lay over everything. It was a strange feeli...